Happy Thanksgiving, MetaFilter! If you have friends from different parts of the U.S., you might have wondered why they consider certain dishes to be an essential part of a Thanksgiving feast, when you've never even thought of them as remotely Thanksgiving-related. Now you can see what dishes were popular searches on
allrecipes.com in various states thanks to
a series of infographics in the
New York Times.
posted by grouse
on Nov 26, 2009 -
70 comments
"Pryde and I came across it one day in an old stable, on a sack of fodder. It is a good, hearty, old English name, and it appealed to us, so we adopted it immediately."
That's how
The Beggarstaffs, a short lived but influential paring of graphic designers, got their name.
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posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Jun 16, 2009 -
9 comments
The
Inamo restaurant in London's fashionable SoHo district isn't known for its splendid food or accommodating waitresses. Instead, this new Asian fusion eatery is getting raves for its use of a
touch pad-projection system that allows diners to send food orders directly to the chefs and makes the dining experience fully interactive. It's all one
graphic application, with new iconography for signs and menus, graphic wallpaper and tablecloths, shopfront etched patterns and illuminated screens.
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posted by netbros
on Mar 16, 2009 -
40 comments
A Day in the Life of Abbey Road; (sorry for the prosaic lead-in link - at least I didn't use the word "iconic!") Enjoy watching Beatles' fans and locals negotiate London's famous Abbey Road crosswalk. I miss album covers; I'm of the generation of high school kids who spent a zillion hours flipping through them in record stores. The best of them - like Abbey Road - could be high-impact and sometimes accompanied their records like a kind of graphic mini-novel. What were some of your favorites and why?
posted by Dex Quire
on Mar 10, 2009 -
42 comments
Journalism may be going through a painful period but thanks to the web the once lowly information graphic is finally growing up to be all it never could on paper. Especially the New York Times seems to currently stand out in how frequently and quickly they build amazingly detailed and insightful interactive features. Consider the
tracking of US Airways Flight 1549 or the piece on
raising its engine from the Hudson. Other recent highlights:
9,955,441 parking tickets issues in NYC mapped by street,
The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008,
Ansel Adams's Yosemite,
the view from the 10-meter platform explained,
A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses 1789 to the Present,
A Map of the number of medals that countries won in summer Olympic Games,
Going to the End of the Line,
The 44 Places to go in 2009, an explanation of
how the Pentagon responded to criticism of then-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld,
The Soyuz Spacecraft,
How the Towers Stood and Fell and
many,
many, more.
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posted by krautland
on Feb 14, 2009 -
16 comments
In 2005, graphic artist Kentaro Nagai was struck by the play on words between
peace and
piece in relation to global politics. This concept was expanded in an exhibition entitled
Twelve Animals, where Nagai rearranged outlines of the world's landmasses into shapes respective of
the aspects of the Chinese Zodiac.
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posted by Smart Dalek
on Feb 12, 2009 -
11 comments
Hongkiat.com is a treasure trove from a Malaysian designer, developer that features
Photoshop tutorials,
icons,
Wordpress tips and tricks,
tools for everything from
sound to
Flickr,
inspirations,
graphics and templates,
stunning wallpapers including for
Windows 7,
Leopard, and
iPhone, and finally a
library of how-to's to make your everyday internet simpler.
posted by netbros
on Jan 15, 2009 -
2 comments
The Gallery of Graphic Design has a huge collection of magazine print adverts from the 30s to the late 60s. The images are fairly large and organised/searchable by year, product, magazine and advertiser.
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posted by peacay
on Mar 12, 2008 -
21 comments
It's not a bug, it's a feature: Carolin Horn has designed
Anymails, which represents your email messages and folders as micro-organisms. The morphology of the individual organisms and their behaviour within colonies imparts information about the state of your email. You can view QT movies of the application in action (
1,
2), download her
thesis, and download
the Anymails code itself. See some of her other work
here (predominantly in German).
via Madame Martin, the "French Metafilter".
posted by Rumple
on Aug 31, 2007 -
22 comments
Abnormal Behavior Child's got some interesting things to
look at and watch or
play with. Site self-describes as "visual poetry".
{second link's got flash/sound}
posted by dobbs
on Apr 17, 2007 -
6 comments
The Morphable Face Model "captures the variations of 3D shape and texture that occur among human faces. It represents each face by a set of model coefficients, and generates new, natural-looking faces from any novel set of coefficients, which is useful in a wide range of applications in computer vision and computer graphics." Amazing/terrifying tech from
Herr Prof. Dr. Volker Blanz.
posted by gwint
on Jan 15, 2007 -
38 comments
